In an effort to glom onto the Mars craze spurred by the outrageous success of the Mars Pathfinder mission, the LLorenz Home Page is pleased to present the Marathon Mars Set, which comes complete with the Mars Shapes Shuttle and the Mars Map. The map is a sprawling one-level exploration mission in a magnetic vacuum environment.
When updated, your newly-patched Shapes file will contain a NEW cyborg which is truly most heinous. It also fixes Bungie's Hunters that look like the Statue of Liberty. The shapes file and map make it easy to see why Mars is considered the Red Planet (and it's not because of the iron in the soil).
It's easy to set up: First, make a copy of your Bungie Shapes file. Then Open the "LLorenz Mars Shapes" file. It will ask you where your shapes file is. Find it, and let the marvelous Shapes Shuttle (created with Charles LeChasseur's Shapes Juggler 1.0) do its thing. It may ask if you want to optimize the file (of course you do) and it might take a minute to update your Shapes to the Earth set, but when you're done you'll be all set to join in the exploitation of NASA's success with the one-level Marathon Mars Scenario.
Seeing as the idea is to create outdoor environs, some of the perspective doesn't quite jibe with what we're all used to in real life. But that's okay: check out our Marathon Earth Scenario (available through the archive of the Marathon HyperArchive MidWest) for an additional dose of approximated reality. Also, if you play the map without patching your shapes file, you'll get some strange results. Kind of like a Salvador Dali painting. I wouldn't recommend it, but you could try it.
Go get 'em!
Lyndon F. Lorenz
LLorenz@Hudsonet.Com
www.hudsonet.com/~llorenz
Special Belated Thanks
Mark Gelotte, developer of Montsegur and runner-up in Bungie's mapmaking competition, for excellent and inspiring mapmaking efforts.
Copyright 1997 Lyndon F. Lorenz
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